Morgan O'Connell

Morgan O'Connell (31 October 1804-20 January 1885) was the Irish Repeal Association MP for Meath from 1832 to 1840 and Assistant-Registrar of Deeds for Ireland from 1840 to 1868.

Biography
Morgan O'Connell was born in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland on 31 October 1804, the son of "the Emancipator" Daniel O'Connell and the brother of fellow MPs Maurice, John, and Daniel O'Connell Jr.. At the age of fifteen, he followed his father's advice and joined the Irish brigade serving in Simon Bolivar's army during the South American Wars of Liberation. O'Connell survived a tropical fever and two shipwrecks, and he returned to Ireland in January 1822 as a mature adventurer. He then sought foreign service in the Austrian army, and he returned again to follow his father into politics. On 19 December 1832, he was elected the Repeal Association MP for Meath, and, while he never accepted the Repeal movement and often clashed with his father, he fought in a duel with a British Army officer on his father's account and declined a duel offer from Benjamin Disraeli, another one of his father's rivals. O'Connell went on to serve as Assistant-Registrar of Deeds for Ireland from 1840 to 1868, and he died in 1885.